Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
1. Early Realisations: Understanding the Indian System I.1 An Educationist in a Princely State: Baroda
I.2 Early Public Expressions of the Educational
Malaise: Through an Analysis of Bankim’s Life and
His Education
I.3 Early Suggestions for Reforms: As an Education
Administrator
2. Survey of the Indian Educational Scene: A Prelude to
the National Education Movement
II.1 New Experiments and Lights: The Yearning for a
New System
II.2 Annie Besant: A Foundation of Education for India
II.3 Early Calls for Change: Guru Das Banerjee and
Rabindranath Tagore
II.4 Sister Nivedita: Hints towards an Education for
the Nation
II.5 Swami Vivekananda: Vedantic Seeds for a Future
System of National Education
II.6 A New Approach across the Seas: John Dewey’s
Concern for the Child’s Nature
II.7 Early Argumentations for an Indigenous Education
II.8 Western Perceptions of Indian Education 137
3. Towards a National Education: First Stirrings 148
III.1 Distortion in Application: Analysing the Colonial
System of Education
III.2 Satish Chandra Mukherjee – The Early Pioneer:
A Revisit
III.3 Living with the Guru - The Catholic Vedantin
and the Poet: In Search of an Indigenous
Educational Root
4. Education and National Education: The Political
and Intellectual Debate
IV.1 Rise of the Demand: A Survey of the Educational
Scene
IV.2 Technicalities of a Colonial Education System:
An Overview
IV.3 The Agenda of National Education: The Political
Fillip to an Intellectual Demand
IV.4 Debate of Ideas – Analysing Indian Education:
Bipin Chandra Pal and Satish Chandra Mukherjee
IV.5 Bipin Chandra Pal: An Education for a ‘New India’
IV.6 National Education: Its Continuity in
Sri Aurobindo’s Thought and in the National
Movement
Part Two
5. Sri Aurobindo and the Demand and Need for a
National Education System: Political and Ideational
V.1 Introduction
V.2 Sri Aurobindo’s Political Demand for a
National Education
V.3 Educational Issues in Political Forums 303
V.4 In the National Council and the National College
6. Political Delineation of a National Education for India
through Writings, Speeches, Recollections
7. Deeper Fundamentals of National Education:
A Quest Beyond Politics
VII.1 ‘The Brain of India’: Psychological Principles of
Ancient Indian Education
VII.2 On Restoring the Artistic Emotion: The Value of
Art in a Scheme of National Education
VII.3 The Need for an Art Movement and Education:
Art as an Agent of National Unity and as a
Restorer of Racial Artistic Emotion
VII.4 Call for a ‘Universal Proficiency’ in Art Training:
The Democratisation of Aesthetics
8. Some Observations and Philosophical Hints on the
Effort towards National Education: An Assessment
9. A Postscript: Some Aspects of a Philosophy of
‘National Education’ (1920-21) and an Education for
the Indian Century
Bibliography
Index
